There's an entire industry based of pumping out columns blaming "both sides" for the state of America's descent in fascism. David Brooks, Chris Cillizza, David Brooks, Joe Scarborough, David Fucking Brooks, and, at least until Trump, Thomas Friedman. All of them make a very fine ...read more

• By Justin Rosario
  Dec 20, 2018

I realize that Matt Taibbi has done enough good work on the topic of the New York Time's resident banality generator Thomas Friedman to last a lifetime, but the jet setting, 'hyper-connectivity' reporter's latest column truly is a treasure trove of utter absurdity. Picking on ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Feb 17, 2016

Here's what you should be reading instead of bothering with that whole getting-back-to-work thing: 1. Tom Galt Like everyone else, we here at the Banter love piling on the mockery when it comes to Tom Friedman. He's really such an easy target. But R.J. Eskow actually skipped ...read more

• By Chez Pazienza
  Feb 17, 2016

Tom Friedman, The New York Time's meaningless columnist in chief published one of his best pieces yet last week - a true testament to his ability to regurgitate banal pseudo intellectual garbage week after week. The ludicrously highly paid Friedman churns out articles on the ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Feb 17, 2016

It really is a guilty pleasure, but I do love it when clever, funny writers take on not so clever, humorless writers. Intellectual slap downs are like junk food to journalists, and Matt Taibbi has provided years of unhealthy food to people like myself, largely at the expense of ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Feb 18, 2016

In an otherwise entertaining attack on Thomas Friedman's latest piece of drivel about Syria, moral crusader Glenn Greenwald goes after the NYTs columnist for covering up the fact that he supported the war in Iraq - a war he supported too and barely ever talks about: The reality ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Feb 18, 2016

The title for Taibbi's latest blog post: And if you take the time to read Friedman's New York Times piece 'Syria is Iraq', it's hard to disagree. Just take a look at these two completely contradictory and nonsensical paragraphs: 1. And, for me, the lesson of Iraq is quite ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Feb 22, 2016

In case you missed it, here's what we covered at The Daily Banter this week!: We looked at New York Time's columnist Thomas Friedman's fast food intellectualism, and analyzed Obama's use of Karl Rove's election tactics for the 2012 Presidential race. Bob Cesca tore into ...read more

• By Guest Contributor
  Nov 9, 2018

By Ben Cohen: New York Times columnist and Pulitzer prize winning author Thomas Friedman is one of the highest paid scribes in the world. In 2005, the New York Magazine reported that Friedman was being paid $300,000 per year from the Times and $40,000 per speaking engagement - ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Feb 18, 2016

Matt Taibbi spends most of his time these days reporting on the gigantic scandals that occur on a daily basis on Wall St, but old habits die hard and Taibbi couldn't help himself after being nudged by a reader into engaging in his favorite hobby - bashing the New York Time's ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Feb 18, 2016

By Robert Parry: If you relied on one signpost for where not to go, it might be the columns of New York Times star Thomas L. Friedman: If he’s pointing in one direction, like some humorless Cheshire Cat, it’s usually a safe bet that you should go the other way. Sure, he’s not ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018